Across
- 10. (platelets)
- 11. what are the shapes of blood cells
- 15. mature red blood cell
- 16. blood that is collected from a superficial vien
- 18. clear liquid in blood
- 19. is a symptom that lack of oxygen in red blood cel is
- 20. Heme is striped of its iron and converted to _______
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- 1. stimulated by a hormone called erythropoietin
- 2. a person trained to draw blood from a patient for test or donations
- 3. destruction of red blood cells
- 4. white blood cell
- 5. what is the formation of all blood cells
- 6. cancer of white blood cells
- 7. proteins that fight off foreign material
- 8. needed for blood clotting
- 9. have antibodies and transport proteins
- 12. crimson; bright red color
- 13. used to find the precentages of blood
- 14. low oxygen; dark red color
- 17. broken apart into amino acids and used by cells